Multiple Choice Questions

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The incorrect statement with regard to haemophilia is

  • It is a sex - linked disease

  • It is a recessive disease

  • It is dominant disease

  • It is dominant disease


C.

It is dominant disease

Haemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease.
A single protein that is a part of the cascade of protein is involved in the clotting of blood is affected. The heterozygous female for haemophilia may transmit the disease to sons.

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If both parents are carriers for thalassemia, which is an autosomal recessive disorder, what are the chances of pregnancy resulting in an affected child?

  • No Chance

  • 50%

  • 25%

  • 25%

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Which enzyme/s will be produced in cell in which there is a non-sense mutation in the lac Y gene?

  • beta - galactosidase

  • Lactose permease

  • Transacetylase

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A gene showing codominance has:

  • One allele dominant on the other

  • alleles tightly linked on the same chromosome

  • alleles that are recessive to each other

  • alleles that are recessive to each other

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The term "linkage" was coined by

  • T.H. Morgan

  • T. Bover

  • G. Mendel

  • G. Mendel

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In the following human pedigree, the filled symbols represent the affected individuals. Identify the type of given pedigree. 

  • Autosomal dominant

  • X-linked recessive

  • Autosomal recessive

  • Autosomal recessive

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A colour blind man marries a woman with normal sight who has no history of colour blindness in her family. What is the probability of their grandson being colour blind?

  • 0.5

  • 1

  • Nil

  • Nil

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In his classic experiments on pea plants, Mendel did not use

  • Seed colour

  • Pod length

  • Seed shape

  • Seed shape

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Fruit colour in squash is an example  of 

  • recessive epistasis

  • dominant epistasis

  • complementary genes

  • complementary genes

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A normal-visioned man whose father was colour-blind, marries a woman whose father was also colour-blind. They have their first child as a daughter. What are the chances that this child would be colour-blind?

  • 100%

  • 0%

  • 25%

  • 25%

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